Generatism Prologue: To LaPuff Or Not To LaPuff?
The Online-Theorist Multi-Author Generated Text With This Week's Feature Authors: Kathy406am, BronzeAgeShawty, Charles McBryde, Zachary Marlow, fl0t2 and Victoria Campbell.
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I. An Online Theory Text Structure Towards Non-Structure
This NuPhilosophical ‘text’, built out by online-to-real-life theorists, will feature new authors every week and work towards hosting a shared platform and discourse space. Authors will have a chance to answer an excerpt to the main edition question to introduce themselves to readers. After each main section to the edition there will be a button to view the associated NuPlatonic dialogues attached to each topic. At the bottom of this initial piece will be a submissions portal that will be opened for you [[the ‘reader’]] to include your input into the dialogues and topics discussed.
This Edition’s Authors and Intro Question:
“What Is Your Theory Of Online?”
Kathy 406am
Zachary Marlow
BronzeAgeShawty
Victoria Campbell
Fl0t2
Charles McBryde
II. Who Is Justin LaPuff?
I must first and foremost admit that all the previous Substacks written here, on this account, were indeed crafted by a ghost-writer close within the LaPuffian social circuit. The aforementioned poet-laureate will be kept anonymous in order to protect them from the various international assassins which are often to target our dynasty - this is of course to be expected in our family as much as Buddhism is also a threat to any empire.
To employ a ghost-writer to publish cultural reports on my own and others’ experiences was a purposefully experimental foray into representation by the LaPuff Foundation, and one I rather delighted in, where movements and ideas could be converted and reacted to by another force to surpass the biases of auto-mythologization into a divining pool of group mythos. It is no surprise that this piece then should take this form, too.
I am still Justin LaPuff. I was conceived on September 17th, 2023 in the East Village digital beddings of Bliccy and Saltypickles and by devout Rosicrucian miracle and the ritual sacrifice vis a vis the post-left lolcow forums falling I was then born into this world 8 months prematurely on October 6th, 2023 - where I was immediately and rightfully cancelled. I am just now 27, but for the shamanic progression of men in modernity that means I’m really about 4 years old since passing the barrier during The Great Wandering. This year I was adopted by a really really big family who doesn’t quite go by a surname but loosely defines itself through a nexus of digital and physical geographies as identification.
I have always believed in the social organics. I began as a manic and unbound child youtube star, grafting digital identity to myself before I was even fully formed. I’ll challenge you to find where the fictions are in LaPuff yourself: My mother’s side is indeed a a bastion of government agents and witches, albeit the few inverted benevolent ones. My father’s side does form from a mantled league of espionage and renaissance men, his father having started the Mi6 after he pioneered gelignite bank robbing and conning, was imprisoned in a British isle that the Nazis took over, and used his opportune keenness and luck to invent the need for a triple agent to save millions of lives through paper mache airfields and other magician’s tricks. I have spent 10 years training myself since I left the orbit of their power, traveling and learning the meta-topology of every discipline.
I have received a new name everywhere I go. To be known by what you actually do for others, fully anew in each interval and only at the true merit of those lengths, is beyond the process of self-realization. I am here because I am the one idiot who will never give up on All-Humanist sentiments, who is only satisfied with a future where we are all going to make it - because I’ve found beauty in what we are doing and can.
I did make schizo-instagram diagrams years ago exposing the Thielian network that have now all come true, I did infiltrate every level of the scene as a holy fool in a medley of profiles to see what everyone’s island was like on adventure, I did attend the Moldbug wedding and meet the purest souls there too as I always knew I would. To a true heart, this is all for care, a smile. I had a dream of what we all could do down a path of will - and so I chose.
Herein, The Foundations Of ❦ Generatism
III. The Heterodox Emergence
I’m life wing.
I will not hold any punches. Liberals and Conservatives are both deeply flawed in their own respective ways and it is holding us back indefinitely.
Liberals try to encapsulate the human experience through what I call ‘Categorical Control’. In a very simple ‘At Basis’ manner, relying on a system of jurisprudence which denies rights to also guarantee rights is a dangerous moral structure. To me, the State is a Deity which adopts and adapts to the threaded pathways of emerging epistemes - Agamben details some of the tools it has at its disposal when he discusses the ‘State of Exception’. In his conceptual frame, the existence of supra-legal structures such as Guantanamo Bay, or even the ability for the State Deity to have a full monopoly and access to the creation of any such spaces or terms, totally dissolves the basis or supposed protection of any other rights. In a brief cultural metaphor, ‘Lockheed Martin Cultural Inclusion Department’.
While progressive politics of equity and liberation are indeed based as singular facets, it is not a hard argument for most of us to say that the application of liberal politics and parties are often executed without detail to fact or with intentions which are fully contained in the illusion of political amphitheater itself - in some ways the worst type as progress is supposed but never able to reached at basis, a type of tragedy for the well-meaning and the coal-beds for the bank runs of fake progressives who supplement their 401ks and cycling fund over accrual withdrawals from the non-profit industrial complex without any real sense of futurist or structural change towards mass human benefit. This is ironically, and undeniably accelerationist in the form and function of its outcomes.
I’m life wing.
Conservatives don’t get a pass either. A lot of the AltRight emergence is formulated from theories that older generations of conservatives had to posit in order to structure their desired way of life. That’s likely expected if we reflect with any political-realism, the issue is that new inheritors of this ideological legacy fully believe it, often even more than the ones that originated the ideas themselves, who mostly did so to pass certain laws in the past based more on their current opportune preference than actual functional or moral doctrine - bar a few extremist exceptions.
Conservatism is the past programming of a now bleeding out Leviathan carried on ignorantly. Its own true purveyors acknowledge its unsustainability - they call for a need to drive towards accelerationism instead from an increasingly bigger and scarier tale of the Malthus parable, that the only way to make it will be to define and structure the groups who should live by the array of soft and hard forces the State Deity owns and performs until the next yugic world era forges a cataclysm to scrape out the bottom enough to once again satisfy some sense of balance by superiority complex.
I’m life wing.
That is all weakness to me. I can’t accept the decisions of the conservatives. I can’t accept the decisions of the liberals. I can’t accept the decisions of them both as accelerationists. I am a Generatist - my new philosophy to oppose accelerationism.
There is a new heterodox emerging.
Wake up call! Your AltRight shadow ring leader overlord Thiel is a gay man! Obama did drone them kids, Biden has substantiated the split in true and false progressives over Israel to the always coming but now so clear fracturing of the liberal party. Your persistent social structure is designed on both sides to secure the levees of the future of the chosen few regardless of the moral backbone either uses to suppose so.
You Know This Is All Just A Story, Don't You?
You Know That You're A Character That Gets To Choose, Right?
You Know I've Made My Choice And That It's One For Us, Yes?While accelerationism takes root as the surviving philosophy of both imploding ends of the current political diametric, the heterodox emergence represents the choice between Accelerationism and Generatism. The choice between some of us making it or all of us makig it.
Before I can convince you to take the Prism Pill, and in order to truly understand how we got here and what our choices are for it to look like on the other side, we must first dive into the following sections.
IV. The History Of Accelerationism
Nick Land didn’t invent accelerationism. Not just in the ways that nobody really invents anything, how everyone rather discovers it from the emotive sea of reason, but also in the sense that he drew primary inspiration for the term and ideology from earlier Sci-Fi novelists. In the 1967 book Lord Of Light by Roger Zelazny, an oddly foreboding Hindu cosmological tale, Zelazny depicts a group he calls the ‘Accelerationists’.
The Accelerationists in Zelazny’s novel are of no distinct origin, in fact they pretend to be variable gods from the Hindu Pantheon and aren’t Hindu - they are only distinctly marked by their technological prowess which has allowed them to create and sustain the caste system which they are the top of.
If Nick Land had finished the book he might have seen us coming and he might have had a brighter outlook on this all. The protagonist Sam [Mahasamatman] is foreign on arrival but intuitive to the array of being of everyone involved. By wielding technology and social evolution they are able to open pathways for people’s true potential and break the standing cycle to suppose a new age.
Accelerationism as a wider decontextualized theory discusses the application of capitalist processes and technological developments as supersets with directional outcomes. If we want to ground the continuation of this idea further it is easy to point to Marx’s own predictions in the Communist Manifesto as a foresight to the always oncoming nature of this problem:
“All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind…” - Marx
But, and in the same vein, I’m of the mind to think that even the Pre-Cenobites and Gargantua and every notable mystic and animistic text were also writing in an anti-accelerationist capacity, or more distinctly, already at the basis of a discovery of a worthwhile Generatist endeavor that has persisted through our cultural fables as the concept of faith. Most of the continuation of Political Science ever since has mostly served as distraction from this larger socio-spiritual battle.
Where we see Accelerationism most commonly rendered in modern discourse is along the lines of the CCRU (beginning in roughly 1995) and its eventual fracture - involving the theorists Mark Fisher, Sadie Plant, and Nick Land. The fracture created a not-so-clear-cut divide into new segmentations of ‘Left Accelerationism’ (that uncontrolled technological progress will harm and destroy society) and ‘Right Accelerationism’ (that unchecked technological progress is the surest choice to one’s own perceived group’s survival). This was furthered by a handful of theorists since who have managed to talk about optimistic applications of our will but fail to fundamentally separate beyond the original accelerationist viewpoint.
You’re likely to have heard accelerationism respouted by the edgiest types at the intellectual party or addended to various user social media profiles as digital bumper sticker identifier - for those who have not been able to see a path of the genuine survival of everyone this is the next best hedged bet, and one that I struggle to blame others for choosing by instinct until we can create alternatives. Even without conscious awareness of the concept or term accelerationism itself, it remains the current vote sway and decision basis for the silent majority of the US.
Accelerationism predates, exceeds, and inhabits all of the current political diametric. It will rise as one of two major visions of the future to choose.
V. The Heart Of Generatism
Did you ever believe just once, for a moment, that everyone is great deep down and deserves to live, to have redemption, to overcome, to have heartbreak, that the real real secret true optimal existence isn’t some machinic dredging of our souls in planned suffering but a total application of ourselves, where everyone can chase their dream or try to cast out into that void of so short life - have you taken a moment to perceive and imagine the untold lengths we might actually be able to reach then? At a point of social evolution never truly beyond our reach or will, temporarily blanketed over by the weight of a continued age - quickly unraveling. I don’t want to give up the future now. What else would I be here for?
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◊ The Belief That The Inherent Contradictions Can Be Purposefully Wielded, That Their Inversions And Leverages Do Not Have To Cost Millions Of Lives, That Technology And The Social Fabric Can Be Imbued With Positive Direction Without The Need For Total Collapse - Generatism Stands As The Ever-Beacon Belief That We All Can Make It.
I know that we know it, I also know that we are often told to tuck this all away. Let’s first address the often used number one counter to All-Humanism: ‘Impracticality’. By what measures is the total survival and success of everyone, particularly the vulnerable, impractical? Do we not have all the minds here before us to leverage a better tomorrow? Is the Economy, constructed entirely in illusion, not invertible to steer a desired set of outcomes?
The Why of Generatism is clear, and knowing so I have spent a continued amount of time immersing myself in the evolving disciplines of the What and How of Generatism that our generations have grafted - where the real routes have broken through any conception of over-reality to make themselves available towards a generative direction. The following sections delve into some of these pathways as explorative case study.
VI. Inversion And Direction: Digital Tools As The Difference In Difference Of Our Age
What’s something that the ages before us didn’t have? Vacuum tubes, for one, the initiation of all binary computer electronics through a simple electric responsive gas in glass diode - but that was invented in 1904. Of course, there is nuclear power, an ecological altering blast and potential base-load energy source - but that too was pioneered in 1942. 1953, the DNA double helix. 1971, Intel’s first general purpose programmable processor. 1973, the mobile phone. 1977, the personal computer. 1979, Usenet spreads out over universities. 1989, the worldwide web conceptually blooms. 1992, text messaging. 1996, the first cloned animal. 1998, the google search engine as a composite information space. 1999, Wi-Fi. 2001, iPod. 2004, Facebook. 2007, iPhone. 2008, Branson beta tests cryptocurrency on Kenya. 2009, Bitcoin. 2012, CRISPR gene editing. 2015, self driving cars. 2016, Deepmind’s AlphaGo Ai. 2022, Quantum Computing overtakes a mathematical task previously bettered by computers. 2023, solid state batteries. 2024, Generatism.
What do I mean by Difference in Difference?
I mean that because the ages before us did not have this condensing of technology and mass interconnectedness we have, then whether we own these channels or pathways or not will determine our outcome in major part. All philosophy should be practical and hopeful. The best way to view this is that we have a unique opportunity to shift the paradigms presented via what is new.
What do I mean by Inversion?
Inversion is a practice by Inversionists. Inversionists understand particularities such as the ‘Illusion of the Economy’ and are able to direct forces in realism towards a within and without dynamic where generative outcomes are still achieved or facilitated through otherwise false systems. Inversionists are why people are housed or fed at all through nonprofits that would otherwise belly up on funds. Inversionists are why even when a whole political branch declares a group’s mere existence to be evil that those targeted people are still able to survive. Anyone can practice inversion where they are able to direct the world beyond this one’s seeming to one of a brighter future.
What do I mean by Direction?
To understand direction we must understand addition. Everything is additive, unable to be separated in relation, totally enmeshed particularly now in modern human existence as a Fused Reality - omnipresent across every idea space and ecological inch. The direction our Fused Reality takes is a compounding of all additions or alchemical fixtures provided to it, at mass, all at once, in constant calculus-like chaos beyond reach. Some additions oppose each other directly, or skew the angle of another ever so slightly, the total of additions and our standing direction is brought together in total amalgamation across an unlimited-point array space to show the unavoidable realism of our course - it is brought together by the social, emotional, physical, and digital but also entirely indifferent to these aspects other than the nature of the total and what it shows.
What is a Digital Tool?
Digital Tools are potential Difference In Differences that can be utilized by Inversionists to create or bolster a particular Direction through Addition. An example of a digital tool might be social platforming or digital currency, aspects that at basis might be able to help organize a better world if wielded towards the right purpose. As these technologies are often new and developing, some open gaps for inversion that have a temporarily heightened immunity to the auto-antibodies of the State Deity and provide the highest ability to Respace energy from defunct internal systems of engagement to novel external systems of benefit without erasing or losing any total energy or living inertia.
VII. Memetics, Online Cults, Social Scenes And The Real Space Of Idea Mutation: What We’ve Learned Together
One of the new digital tools we have seen widely employed to the ends of shaping elections and wider social view is memes themselves. Of course, memes are often attributed to being conceived of in 1976 by British evolutionary biologist - Richard Dawkins. For me, however, the heart of ‘meme’ comes from ‘mimesis’ a long -standing Greek zoology and art word defining the process of ‘representation and imitation’ in the real world via art and literature and the tooling of biomimicry and mirroring by animals and humans alike.
Memes do something particular by existing too - in their process of expansion and creation as natural mirrors they begin to span out to automatically sub define. This singular facet, often mathematically and digi-biologically seen as a mycelial growth structure, has lead to the structuring of ideas at a capacity beyond any national boundaries or previous identity groups. In some ways this is gated by technology access itself but even that is continually decreasing as digital markets in previously unaccessed areas are an increasing profit incentive for companies. Even for those without technology access, the digital sphere is still capable of totally absorbing the ideas and visages of non-users for digital re-creation. I’ve watched and participated in the evolution and standardization of content since 2013 through heightening stages as these simple mechanisms - like all of our clay tablets and secret sonnets in one place - created the strangest opportunity and emergence ground I can’t ignore - what we call Online Cults and Online Scenes.
Since the post-genesis state of the Arab Spring, the ability for these online groups to actionably steer outcomes has only evolved. In past pieces I’ve justified the credibility of the power of online scenes with the immense scale of political and monetary investment that flows through them but it is just as apt to look around us and see how much of the daily idea space social and online groups steer or platform or promote - the School of Athens’ daily decrees with an added comment section.
What does this mean for all of us here now who have inherited these tools, these realities, these optional paths of inversion and leverage? For a Generatist like me this is an immense opportunity - here we have a set of idea and organizational tools that, at basis, can be used to mass terraform social and ecological realities if they can be liberated or stolen-out-from the grips of short sighted goliaths like Zuck and Musk. As with any tool, the direction we choose to wield it in will effect our outcomes substantially - luckily this is becoming increasingly our choice to make.
VIII. $EGirl, Autonomous Monetary Culture Groups As NuTribes: A Mad-Maxxian Choice Horizon
I’ll tell you why a project that emerged out of Dimes Square this year is actually a great example of advancements in Generatist Inversionist goals through digital tools . It’s called $EGirl, and yes this does have to do with Crypto - I’m not the biggest fan with current Crypto as it is… but $EGirl is different.
My major gripe with Crypto as it stands is that it only exists as a widely inaccessible and siloed mirror of the traditional stock system. While I can understand the actual applied Inversionist philosophy behind elements of the Grift Economy and how that can change lives for some, the game state of NFTs/Crypto currently establishes a set of winners and losers instead of a taking-back of the large coffers that it happens to trick to reach from those monetary pools that have been continually locked away from us. In more blunt terms: of the billion dollar markets and locked liquidity in inaccessible gambles, how much have our previous communities actually seen?
To try to re-tool this differently I’m going to ask you to neuter your idea of Crypto entirely and return it back to its elemental form as ‘digital currency’ that we could possibly leverage as our own tools to create communities and alter the world. When I was in Kenya in 2007 I witnessed the real birth of crypto currency. Truthfully, it was a blatant beta test on the Third World by Richard Branson and various interested government parties in the form of mobile phones dispersed with pre-loaded and tradeable network currency. While its goals were to further the incorporation of scheduled tribes into a taxable and monitorable economy (one of the always-incentives of an omnipresent seeking State Deity) it had the simultaneous outcome of stimulating community interaction and shared resource development as well as saving real lives by the happenstance of the money injected. It has maintained a large prominence in those economies, when I lived in Ghana in 2014 it was a staple of transactions and movements beyond the cash economy there as well and will likely continue to.
When it comes to how $EGirl ties into this historical arc, we could discuss Shawty’s lawsuit backed by Elon against Block that has H3H3 levels of jurisprudence, we could talk about its emplaced history in collective art projects - particularly those from Dimes itself - but I find it way more aspirational to look at where it is headed and what it could be. $EGirl is the first step in our social experimentation regarding the creation of self-determining monetary culture groups and their ability to create real cultural and physical castings into the world. By all measurable and comparable standards it has been immensely successful and opened doors to frontiers.
I’ll tell it plainly, most Crypto parties and social spheres are often sausage parties which don’t serve as actionable or operable spaces for any real social evolution other than a Daddy’s Amex circle jerk. $EGirl is built different and has shown it - drawing crowds engaged around Crypto that would have never before and keeping them involved while dissolving those fundamental trust and access barriers. Now you might say ‘what does a party have to do with social futurism?’ and to you I’d say - historically, and recently particularly from the real outbound online scene generations, everything. $EGirl is able to achieve this because of the way we are distinctly re-tooling digital currency. Parties, art pieces, movie nights - these aspects have existed as external facets of online culture for some time and $EGirl is able to consolidate them into a leverageable vehicle. The based have acknowledged it as this vessel.
What does this mean for the future? I’ll start with this: none of this is coincidence, the projects that I arrived in NYC to finish in order to bolster this type of redirection are premised on the same organic bloom and timely implosion of the polis we find ourselves in now. It is the moment. If we are able to continue building out these pathways and expanding these tools then we will truly be able to wield the options before us with actionable outcomes on our world.
IX. Social Evolution And Terra Mastery: Trajectories
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◊ Generatism Believes In A Process Of Seeking Social Evolution To Attain Terra Mastery As The First And Foremost Actionable Goal Of Humanity - Only Then Can A Pure Ground Of Potential And Eventual Expanding Life Reach Beyond Initial Earth Constraints
So you want the human race to be a space-faring multi-class high-tier universal society? You’ve come to terms with the fact that Utopian Realism doesn’t neuter the world of heartbreak or other human factors, just planned or preventable harm. You think that it is likely possible, if given enough universal resource access or technology scale, that most of non-emotional human suffering itself can be alleviated. Of course, due to the feasibility of near-infinite resources, it doesn’t really make sense to out-group anyone from this wider human project.
But are we socially evolved enough yet to do that?
Luckily, we do have something up our sleeve. We have been socially evolving more rapidly than ever and creating tools and byways in order to do so. To me this indicates that the social evolution required to run alongside technology mastery here on Earth will equip us with everything we need for everyone to make it.
Now, there are some enthusiasts of The Great Space Shortcut, they believe that by speedrunning space technology we can gain enough materials and advancements to solve all the issues back here on Earth. While this is noble, and there are truly multi megaton deposits of platinum on nearby asteroids I take a few issues with the practicality vs risk to human life that these prescribe - I’ll dissect this by breaking this perspective into two categories.
First you have the Elon types, they primarily see a jettison mission to Mars and a start of space seeding as one of the only possible current survival routes for humanity. In one aspect of this is an embedded ‘current trajectory maintenance’ where a majority of human life might have to be sacrificed for this to succeed, this will certainly equate those ‘who is to survive’ lines along lines of power as well.
A practical issue with the Elon type shortcutters is that their science is often erroneous and falls short. I’ll exemplify by comparing one of my own designs (of which I have notebooks containing 100s) to one of Elon’s conceptions. Elon wants to use physical drills on Mars to gain resources for Earth and the colonies there. This is foolish because Mars has lower gravity nullifying some of the kinetic energy, Mars does not have that much of a crazy differential abundance of resource that would be worth transporting, and to establish a local mining facilitation at this production rate of a few drills every few years would be horribly slow - you me and everyone would be dead before this ever saw a result for Mars let alone Earth.
I have designs for a self replicating silica/silicon drone species based on multi-organelle modular structures with hardsec computing that could laser mine and catch much more valuable resources in higher quantities from asteroids while self replicating from solar energy and the abundance of silica in outer space. The hardsec/silicon chips built into each part are single-operation set programming that are reproduced like asexual cellular reproduction and will have a kill-switch thereby preventing a runaway infinite drone swarm situation - the usual.
While it may look like manic DaVincian garble, the point to be illustrated is that these groups are seeking a goal without fully understanding the accuracy of the solutions. Which brings us to the second group of views, the ‘Well-Meaners’. The Well-Meaners, who I partly belong to but surpass, are capable of scientific accuracy and have solutions that they believe will prove viable advancements through The Great Space Shortcut that could save lives or advanced material conditions through the idea of ‘slow-progress’.
Other than the end intention of preserving life, I tend to disagree with the Well-Meaners too. I find their view to be shortsighted of timelines and vulnerability. Just as if you were to blink away capitalism suddenly tomorrow, slow-progress only succeeds in allowing the most vulnerable to die while some are able to make it.
This is not enough - until we can truly master our material reality here the former perspectives will prove to be inefficient and cost us countless lives. I think Terra Mastery is the only actionable route, achievable through social evolution, found in the wielding of digital and physical tools for inversion, and to the ends of establishing a new generative direction whose timeliness and precision actually stands a chance at allowing us all to make it by acting through that.
X. Generating Forward With You
While invoking Authors each interval this ‘text’ will also seek to leverage the reaches of social groups and networks to crowdsource information and perspectives in affinity with the powers we have available to us. Below are questions which you can answer through the submission button to the LaPuff Online portal. These will be involved directly in the next edition release and serve as your stance to put forward your own thoughts.
What is your theory of online?
What is your theory of the future?
What digital tools and inversions have you used or seen?
What can you imagine a future looking like?
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